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sportman12, I am not trying to be mean. I do understand you are disabled and I sympathize with you. However, look how long it took to get some information from you. This is post #16 and only now you tell me you don't have the URL. In post #4, I posted a link to an article which I believe will help you resolve the issue. So far, you haven't said whether you tried the solution in the article, whether it worked, did not work, nothing. I asked you to describe how you replaced the icons. Instead of giving me a detailed answer you said "Download zip". So you downloaded a zip file, what did you do next? You just aren't helping me to help you. Don't you see that?

Okay, so let's try this again.

Please describe how you went about changing the icons. And this time, please provide much detail as possible.

Did you try the solution in the article I linked to in post #4? What was the outcome?

Agouti I did it I do not know how to restore the icons for Windows Explorer Download folder and such where do I do it from

First of all, did you follow the procedure I outlined? Are the icons for Computer, User Files, Network and Recycle Bin now the original ones? Where is the icon for the Explorer Download folder? Is it on the desktop? Please post the following screenshots:

A screenshot of the Downloads folder icon showing clearly what it looks like and where it is located.

A screenshot of the Downloads folder's properties window.

sportman12, once again, you are not using any punctuation. That makes it difficult for the reader to figure out where one sentence ends and the other begins. It makes it difficult to understand what you are saying.It is not making it easy for me or anyone else to help you.

I am using Gary Larson "Far Side" icons dated from 1996 on all of the Win-Versions since then (95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 10) and they all still work.

I just noted though, that the last Java update did not work right - the older version was not de-installed, and the new version only had half of the size it should have. So I de-installed Java and all older versions completely, and reinstalled the newest version. All of a sudden I had a lot more pretty icons on my desktop (not the Far Side ones, they were never affected or changed), especially from freshly installed software.

So maybe just check your Java installation under "Programs & Features", it should be Java 8, Update 73, no previous versions to be listed, maybe that helps.

Greetings, Curly

P.S.: Coming back to the original question again: you can also check the registry (run, regedit) under [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons] - if there is any other value than "standard", like a figure as "29" etc, set it back to standard and/or delete the other entries (which might have been inserted by a tweak program, or are left from upgrading)